Review: ARCANA (for Heart: The City Beneath)

Work on NEW BLOOD continues! While I'm thinking about designing for Heart, I've been wanting to read as much as I can. Today, I'm looking at a cool little supplement, a collection of a bunch of character options, including what are called "Extra Advances," which were in Spire but not Heart (or the core book at least). It's called ARCANA, and it's by Eric Scott!

Archive Delve - Inscrutable Cities

Welcome back to another archive delve! Well, kind of - the text I'm reading today is close to the top of my pile! After securing my personal pan pizza, I think I want to shake up the format a little bit, and mix in some recent releases with the older stuff, maybe meet in the middle kind of Memento-style. I might switch up the title scheme! But for now Archive Delve will be specifically for stuff I crowdfunded, and hopefully I'll publish some other reviews of other stuff I'm reading, just for fun. 

Today, we're reading Inscrutable Cities, by Julian K. Jarboe, and published by Possum Creek Games! I'm a fan of PCG's other stuff, like Wanderhome and Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast (they have a bigger, cool catalogue, but those two are the standouts to me). Inscrutable is obviously riffing off of Calvino's Invisible Cities, which I also quite enjoy, so I have high hopes. Let's delve!

Review: Called to the Heart

I've been plugging away at NEW BLOOD, my supplement for HEART: The City Beneath, and running some play-by-post games, and recently there was even a video review, so I think it's safe to say I'm a little heart pilled right now. Ah, sorry, I'm getting word that that's a different thing. Anyway, it's been a kind of busy month, actually, between updates. I've been really enjoying my time in Heart's system and setting! But I missed reading and writing about reading - so I thought I would take a look at some of the other stuff that's come out for Heart recently. Today, I'm taking a look through Misha Handman's Called to the Heart!

Archive Delving - Dungeons & Dilemmas

This past week featured some classic TTRPG discourse - notable not just for the eternal recurrence of topic, but that the leading luminary in the actual play/streaming space (Brennan Lee Mulligan) seemed to be wading in. I've largely stopped paying as much attention to this debate (in no small part because it's usually localized to Twitter, which I don't enjoy being on) but I do think it's fun to think, read, and talk about. I'm inching closer to writing the first part of that manifesto I've been threatening, and even if I recover my faculties and divert from that particular madness, I think it would at least be fun to write something about it. At the very least, I think it would be fun to make my friends read it.

Anyway, that's part of why I missed my usual window for a weekly delve, and why I think I'm reaching for something that advertises itself as philosophical. Today I'm reading Jesse Burneko's Dungeons & Dilemmas!

Archive Delving - The Curse of the House of Rookwood

Another week, another archive delve! Today I'm taking a look at The Curse of the House of Rookwood by Brian Bình and Michael Addison.

Archive Delving - Terror of the Stratosfiend #1

I'm nearing the end of the zines I'd highlighted for this first round of archive delving! Right now my plan is to finish up a few more, and then get to other blogging. Today, I'm reading Terror of the Stratosfiend #1.

Archive Delving - Our Queen Crumbles

I'm back with another quick delve into the archive! More of a heroic jaunt, really. Today I'm reading through Our Queen Crumbles, by Jason Brown.